Round the Sphere Again: Put in Writing

Message by Pigeon
“His men rapidly succumbing to the onslaught [from friendly fire] and with two birds already shot down, Major Charles Whittlesay dispatched a frantic message by way of their last surviving homing pigeon, ‘Cher Ami’.” Read the message and the rest of the story at Letters of Note.

Not-So-Frequently Asked
questions about pencils. Like what should I call the little metal band that holds the eraser? And is there a difference between an HB pencil and a #2 pencil? (mental_floss Blog)

Thankful Thursday

I’m thankful for today. I’m thankful that things went well with the difficult task I mentioned yesterday.

I’m thankful for the rain. While I was concentrating on other things, I didn’t have to worry about keeping the ground moist where I’ve planted or keeping the transplants watered.

I’m thankful for good health. I’m thankful a quiet evening at home after a busy day.

I’m thankful that sometimes God gives us what we need before we know we need it.

On Thursdays throughout this year, I plan to post a few thoughts of thanksgiving along with Kim at the Upward Call and others. Why don’t you participate by posting your thanksgiving each week, too? It’ll be an encouragement to you and to others, I promise.

This Week in Housekeeping

The Theological Term of the Week posts continue to be the most popular on this blog. Every week, the terms in alphabetical order page gets more hits than any other single page here. That makes me very happy, but it also means that I need to keep all those posts up-to-date—you know, get rid of dead links and add  links to good content that has come online since the original post was first posted.

This week I’ve updated these:

analogy of faith 

• added three related terms: inerrancy of scripture, inspiration of scripture, and perspicuity of scripture.

anthropomorphism

• added a link to Neotheism and anthropomorphism by Steve Hays.
• added related term: anthropopathism.